--- In larkinandmoranbrothers@yahoogroups.com, "larkinbros" <larkinbros@...> wrote:
>
> Brother Mike's Musings... by Mike Larkin 'As the evening sky faded
> from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the
> salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named
> him Flint.'
>
> Congratulations, Brother Mike!!  I love salmon!!  Did you just catch "Flint", or more salmon?  

Helloo all...
>
> Vacations are over and while it is close to the start of the school
> year it is also the time of year that festival season goes into full
> force.
>
> This weekend we play at Irishfest-LaCrosse(Wi) (www.irishfestlax.org)
> on Saturday Aug 11 at 8:15 PM and Sunday Aug 12 at 3:30 PM at Quillan
> Main Stage. It's a great fest and a great town!
>
> Next weekend we appear at Milwaukee Irishfest (www.irishfest.com) on
> Saturday Aug 18 @ 8:45 PM at the Snug Stage. Milwaukee Irishfest is
> the biggest and right on Lake Michigan.
>
> Unfortunately, I will not be attending the GREAT Milwaukee Irish Fest this year.  I am going to Ft. Worth TX, to surprise a friend on her 50th birthday!   

> Tommy Makem (1932-2007)
>
> Looking at the framed Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Tradition
> Records LP on the wall of our Castlegregory Recording Studio (and my
> son Jimmy's toy room) signed by Tommy Makem, we are saddened by his
> passing last week.
>
> Tommy and the Clancys are the fathers of all Irish Folk Music. There
> isn't a band or artist (from Christy Moore, The Pogues, The Saw
> Doctors and of course us) who doesn't recognise their influence on
> what they do.
>
> He was a great guy to talk to at Festivals and without him most may
> not exist. Let's all have a pint to a real original.
>
> I was in love with Tommy Makem as a young lass, and in recent years, got to talk and joke with him at fests.   He will be sorely missed, yet at least the Makem & Spain Bros. will carry on some traditions and music.  

                                                                                                                                Julie A. Roberts
> That's all for this blog (cool web talk)...
>
>
> Slainte
>
> Dan (the old man) Larkin
>